Ludwig Ey (resistance fighter)

Ludwig Ey (born April 30, 1893 in Niesky ; † March 24, 1945 near Gleina ) was a German communist and anti-fascist.

The locksmith Ludwig Ey joined the SPD in 1911 . In 1919 he joined the USPD and in 1922 the KPD . Since 1925 he held a leading position in the metalworkers' association. He was a member of the local leadership of the KPD and was elected to the Prussian state parliament in 1933 . However, he could not take up the state parliament mandate because the seats of the KPD election proposals became ineffective due to the provisional law for the alignment of the states with the Reich .

After the seizure of power of the Nazis , he was taken to after 1933 Sonnenburg concentration camp abducted. In 1934 he was sentenced to two years in prison for repeatedly working for the illegal KPD and was imprisoned again in the concentration camp. After his release in 1937, he continued to participate in the anti-fascist actions, was arrested again in 1940 and this time to eight years in prison convicted. On March 24, 1945 he was murdered near the Prussian town of Gleina.

Honor

Streets in Niesky and Görlitz were named after Ludwig Ey .

literature

• Siegfried Heimann : The Prussian Landtag 1899–1947. A political story . 2011, ISBN 978-3-86153-648-2 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
• Heinz Schumann, Gerda Werner: Fight for the human right. Life pictures and last letters from anti-fascist resistance fighters . Ed .: Institute for Marxism-Leninism at the Central Committee of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany. Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1958, p. 652 .